Hack/build small tensile tester for your printer settings & materials. Any interest?

[EagleSeven]

I am planning on hacking together a small tensile tester so I can measure the actual strength... Of my printer materials and settings...ect. Would like to know if people would be interested in participating... Thinking open source design via Onshape, software dev, using a trailer jack with a metler balance I already have ... Once built would want a website where we could all post results to help each other out. This could be really cool. Let me know if your interested with this thread.

I've found any Easy way to determine strength of filament, before printing,
is just bend it slowly to 90 degree bend and see if it breaks.
(less than a Inch of filament is used per test )

I use a bench-vice to hold the free-end of filament, so bend angle will always be the same.
If it survives to 90 deg then it's Good filament !

Note: some spots in same spool break sooner and easier than others,
so need to do this test several times to get good indication of Overall strength

And ABS usually breaks easier than PLA